Hippolyte Le Roux (

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

1 July 1801 – Paris, 1 July 1860) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. As an actor, he appeared in '' le Festin de pierre'' at the Théâtre-Français (1847) and in ''La Vieillesse de Richelieu'' (Fronsac) by

Octave Feuillet Octave Feuillet (11 July 1821 – 29 December 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. He is renowned for his "distinguished and lucid portraiture of life", depictions of fe ...

and Pierre-François Bocage at the

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in 1848. His plays were presented on the most prestigious Parisian stages of the 19th century including the

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques The Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques () was a theatre in Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries. Opened first in 1832 in the site of the old Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple, under Frédérick Lemaître it became a noted ...

Théâtre du Palais-Royal The Théâtre du Palais-Royal () is a 750-seat Parisian theatre at 38 rue de Montpensier, located at the northwest corner of the Palais-Royal in the Galerie de Montpensier at its intersection with the Galerie de Beaujolais. Brief history O ...

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, and the

Théâtre du Vaudeville The Théâtre du Vaudeville () was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Piis and Yves Barré, Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets s ...

Works

*1827: ''Le Jaloux'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act *1827: ''Une soirée à la mode'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Antoine-François Varner and Jean-François-Alfred Bayard *1829: ''Les Mendiants'', vaudeville in 3 tableaux, with

Henry Monnier Henry-Bonaventure Monnier (7 June 1799 in Paris – 3 January 1877) was a French playwright, caricaturist and actor. Life After studying at the Lycée Bonaparte, he frequented the workshops of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Antoine-Jean G ...

*1829: ''Le Petit Tambour'', tableau in 1 act *1829: ''Le Vieux Pensionnaire'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Bayard *1829: ''La Maîtresse'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Alexis Decomberousse Alexis Decomberousse, full name Alexis Barbe Benoît Decomberousse, (13 January 1793 – 22 November 1862) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th centur ...

and Merville *1831: ''Les Artisans, ou le Lendemain de la noce'', tableau-vaudeville, with Eugène Lebas *1833: ''Le Coucher du soleil'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Mélesville Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, pen-name Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris – 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi) was a French dramatist. The playwright Mélesville fils was his son. Life The son of Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier, M ...

*1833: ''Le Soupçon'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1834: ''Une fille à établir'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Bayard *1835: ''La Famille de la future'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1837: ''Trop Heureuse ou Un jeune ménage'', comedy in 1 act, with

Jacques-François Ancelot Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the July Revolu ...

*1837: ''Mal noté dans le quartier'', tableau populaire in 1 act, with

Desvergers Desvergers, real name Armand-Sacré Chapeau, (1794 – 3rd arrondissement of Paris 26 June 1851 ) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography Little is known about Desvergers's life except the few lines that were dedicated to him by the med ...

and

Étienne Arago Étienne Vincent Arago (9 February 1802 – 7 March 1892) was a French writer and politician, and co-founder (with Maurice Alhoy) of the newspaper ''Le Figaro''. Early life Arago was born in Perpignan, the youngest of the four Arago brothers. ...

*1838: ''Une nuit d'attente'', scène dramatique, mingled with songs, with Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche *1842: ''Au croissant d'argent'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Ferdinand de Villeneuve Ferdinand de Villeneuve (5 June 1801 – 27 September 1858) was a 19th-century French playwright. Short biography He made his debut in the theatre at the age of 21 by partnering with Charles Dupeuty, and began to be successful from 1823 onward ...

*1842: ''La Dragonne'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with song, with

Dumanoir Philippe François Pinel (), known as Dumanoir (; 31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist. Biography Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family ...

*1842: ''La Plaine de Grenelle, 1812'', drama in 5 acts, with

Charles Desnoyer Charles-Louis-François Desnoyer, or Desnoyers, (6 April 1806 – 6 February 1858) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and theatre manager. He also wrote under the pen name Anatole de Beaulieu. Short biography He made his debut as act ...

*1842: ''Le Grand-Palatin'', comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with

Félix-Auguste Duvert Félix-Auguste Duvert (12 January 1795 – 19 October 1876) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. Biography Félix-Auguste Duvert was first a soldier. A volunteer in 1811 among the riflemen of the young guard, he then was pa ...

and Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauroussel *1844: ''Les Petites Bonnes de Paris'' *1844: ''Péché et Pénitence'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts *1844: ''Le Client, ou les Représailles'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1847: ''Une chaise pour deux'', vaudeville en 1 act *1852: ''Les Blooméristes, ou la Réforme des jupons'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Clairville *1856: ''La Chasse aux écriteaux'', vaudeville in 3 acts and 1

prologue A prologue or prolog (from Ancient Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier st ...

, with Théodore Cogniard *1857: ''Le Bras d'Ernest'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Eugène Labiche Eugène Marin Labiche (; 6 May 181522 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic pochades. In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successe ...

*1860: ''Sourd comme un pot !'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with song.

Bibliography

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Louis Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', vol.2, 1870, *

Pierre Larousse Pierre Athanase Larousse (; 23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume . Early ...

, ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'', 1873 * Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, ''La Grande encyclopédie: inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts'', Vol.22, 1886, {{DEFAULTSORT:LeRoux, Hippolyte 19th-century French male actors French male stage actors 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights Writers from Paris 1801 births 1860 deaths